Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 740 741
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 +75
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 39 147 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.43% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18 115 50
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,219 £59,500
25th Percentile £76,563 £61,180 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £66,757 £67,500
% change year-on-year +19.84% -1.10% -9.34%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -61 39 £80,000 +3.23% 4
London +22 27 £83,230 -2.08% 4
Work from Home -10 12 £77,500 +7.31% 2
UK excluding London -68 12 £80,000 +19.84% 1
North of England -4 9 £85,000 +24.06%
North West -17 5 £90,000 +29.60%
Yorkshire +54 3 - -
West Midlands -5 2 £76,250 +1.67%
Midlands -22 2 £76,250 +1.67%
South East +7 1 £75,000 -3.23%
North East -11 1 £75,000 -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) GCP
2 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) Anthos
4 9 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 8 (20.51%) GitHub
6 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.26%) Datadog
8 4 (10.26%) SaaS
9 3 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (7.69%) dbt
9 3 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (7.69%) Google Workspace
9 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.13%) Apigee
10 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 4 (10.26%) VPN
3 3 (7.69%) BGP
3 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.69%) VLAN
4 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) BigQuery
2 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (7.69%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) HBase
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.95%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (7.69%) Selenium
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 11 (28.21%) Banking
4 10 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (23.08%) Retail
6 7 (17.95%) Retail Banking
7 3 (7.69%) Back Office
7 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 3 (7.69%) Law
8 2 (5.13%) Games
8 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
9 1 (2.56%) iGaming
9 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Architect
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Build Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) RESTful
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) React
3 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.69%) Blog
4 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Mobile Games
5 2 (5.13%) Online Games
6 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) CoreOS
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) DevOps
2 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.90%) Agile
4 14 (35.90%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (25.64%) Coaching
6 8 (20.51%) Analytics
6 8 (20.51%) Business Development
6 8 (20.51%) Cloud Security
6 8 (20.51%) Customer Experience
6 8 (20.51%) GitOps
6 8 (20.51%) Observability
7 7 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (17.95%) Asset Management
7 7 (17.95%) DevSecOps
7 7 (17.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 7 (17.95%) RBAC
7 7 (17.95%) Storage Management
7 7 (17.95%) Trunk-Based Development
7 7 (17.95%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) Bash
2 9 (23.08%) Go
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) Ruby
5 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) Haskell
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) NIST
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (48.72%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) NFS
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) HDFS
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (66.67%) Terraform
2 21 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.95%) Ansible
5 3 (7.69%) Argo
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (7.69%) Istio
5 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (5.13%) Kibana
6 2 (5.13%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.56%) Kiali
7 1 (2.56%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.56%) Puppet
7 1 (2.56%) Rancher
7 1 (2.56%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Splunk
3 5 (12.82%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) PagerDuty
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 3 (7.69%) New Relic
5 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.56%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.56%) Databricks
6 1 (2.56%) Informatica
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat